• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    I lived in Sunderland at the time and the amount of brainless sentiment that was going around was huge. So I’m going to go ahead and say yeah actually a lot of the Nissan workers did vote for Brexit.

    Quite possibly because they thought they were going to give the Tories a bloody nose but still they did vote for it.

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      7 months ago

      What do Nissan workers have to do with this thread?

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          What does an article from a publication called West Country Voices entitled “Challenging the myth that farmers voted for Brexit (and therefore deserve what’s coming to them…)” have to do with Nissan workers?

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            Read the article you posted. It mentions Nissan workers along with farmers as groups that voted for Brexit and are now suffering the hubris of their own actions.

            Also the article doesn’t even demonstrate that farmers didn’t vote for Brexit the one thing it claims to actually do, it does not do.

            In the future when you’re posting stuff to try and one up people it might be a good idea to actually read the content of the article first.

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              There is one sentence which makes passing reference to the stereotyping of various groups of people who Remain insists on blaming for its own mistakes. And you decided the only reasonable response was to reassure us that the stereotype was true for one of those groups, according to your inevitably limited experience of individuals you have encountered.

              Astonishing.

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                So what I find utterly fascinating about this article is you posted it as if it was some kind of gotcha and it’s just one person’s opinion. There’s absolutely no evidence provided and the whole article concludes by basically saying that there’s no evidence for one belief or the other. So the ultimate conclusion to the article is that it could essentially not exist and everything would be exactly the same.

                The thing is, what the author of this article never really bothered to address, possibly because it would undo his own argument, is why the belief that farmers voted in massive numbers ever came about. Apparently according to him it isn’t even true so where did it come from?

                Your position is not backed up by any evidence.

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                  It’s a discussion of the polls of farmers, which fluctuated a great deal above and below 50% support.

                  I posted it because Remain fucked up the campaign and now blames everyone but themselves. Which is exactly how and why they lost in the first place. Astonishing arrogance and spite.